It still could easily become a series. Provided of course it is done right. There are those of us that appreciate a deeper dive into the gothic, the macabre and the occult. Showing new and even hidden parts of history are fascinating ideas. If we have learned nothing else from series like The X-Files, Millennium, Bates Motel and American Horror Story. It's this anything and everything in the world of any series can be made possible. Sometimes taking certain liberties with historical facts. Even going further with minor characters can be beneficial to the story.
likely a underrated gem of horror, courtesy of the imagination and originality of Baker, a perfect classic that eternally haunt the nightmares of many.
I did not care for the film back in the day, but now I really love it. I think it is a very well made film overall and I really wish we could have gotten more on- screen stories with Bakula as Harry D'Amour.
it was on the 90s i perfectly remember the face of that diabolical priest i saw it in a old tv ... i used to live in a third world poor town from colombia the country were im still living .. it had to pass a couple of years untill i learn a little bit of english . .. i been looking for a lot of stuff from the states that i rarely watch on the tv back on those days.
An absolutely fantastic film. Horror and suspense twisted up into a Neo-noir style. Love the main character Barker created and the various stories he wrote about him.
@@Soxfandan idk if I've seen Necessary Roughness. Might have to check it out just because Sinbad is in it 😅 Edit: Rob Schneider, Jason Bateman, Kathy Ireland, etc... What a mix of people
I don't understand all the hate this movie gets. It is really, really something different, particularly for the time. It had almost a Cthulhu-like feel for most of it where Nix is a lurking, all-powerful force threatening to come back while his cultists work to restore him. And I found Nix to be a really interesting character. This incredibly-powerful wizard (for lack of a better word) appears like a middle-aged slob.
@@ShadovvV I can't completely deny that, honestly. I still do think it has some interesting charm, though and still don't think it deserves the hate it gets.
I've been searching for this movie forever but couldn't remember the title! I watched this at a sleepover at a friends house when I was like 13 or 14 and even at that age it scared the fuck out of me! I hope it stands the test of time cuz I definitely plan on watching it again now that I found it!
@@Luthorcorp82 Yeah, but that's not a very good cut, unfortunately. It leaves out some scenes that help to build the tension and tie the story together.
Dude me too I finally found it after 10 years! Only search for it briefly every 3 or 4 years comes to my mind. I though it was called "The Illusionist" 🤣 This movie was scary as fuck for me too as a teen. I need to buy this, Amityville 2 was scary too!
I just finished watching this last night after rediscovering the Hellraiser series. It was a pretty good movie even though the FX are dated now. I enjoyed watching the trailer with the narrator, like the old days.
Not a big fan of Clive Barker but thought this film was his best . I did tape it on VHS back in the day (LOL).The actor who played Nix died a few years back and O Conner was in the first Mummy film . I thought the film was quite creepy and the effect was well done .
This movie original VCD 📀 came from malaysia. My uncle brought it I took it. I watched it one time but my dad disposed this VCD due to adults scenes. But good movie..
I thought this movie was kind of awesome. Sure it looks a little dated and some of the eeffects are lame, but the story, acting, and soundtrack of it were pretty intriguing.
Part that spooked me was when the followers who obviously led a double life get "awakened" & murder their own families & just go off to resurrect Nix. That creepy blind devotion that you can feel "certain" fanatics in todays world could be like.
I've been bloody googling like crazy trying to find the name of this movie. Demon buried in metal clamps or scenes from the movie I could vaguely remember. I just happened to look at the Facebook 'nightbreed' page ; and there it was...
Why did Harry need to be raised to push him in? Lol. He didn’t hover above hole to do. So made no sense that had to be raised. Just walk over and push him in.
This film would have been EVEN MORE awesome if it had started with the creepy 1982 Turning UA logo for United Artists at the start of the movie instead of the 1995 Marble logo.
What I took from the character of Nix was... I believe Nix was chosen by a very powerful, dark entity, and was given powers of a god. Once he saw the world through the eyes of a god, he saw humanity as shit and flesh. Once Nix was defeated, appropriately he wasn't truly dead, more like imprisoned to the grave. He learned the wisdom of the grave, and decided he was going to murder the world in the worst way possible. Woah... talk about a great villain💀 I thought Lord Of Illusions was Clive Barker's best film.
if clive barker and sam raimi direct and produce SPAWN the movie back in 90s with supported by production house company columbia pictures,surely the quality will be great not like WB version which in 1997 -_-
call me shallow but this looks cursed by mid 90s cheese. it needs a remake. i'll still watch it sometime or read the book because it seems interesting.
@jcbchuck Oh god yes. How much you asking for? Not sure when I can pay as I'm in a situation right now but once I'm good hell yes I would be most interested in that trailer. Let me know.
@sparktank Yes I remember that trailer too, with just Dead Can Dance's "De Profundis" as the music. I remember seeing this movie when it came out, it wasn't that bad for a $5 ticket, even though the acting sucked, and the ending was disappointing (the kind where you suspect that's where the budget ran out). There's alot worse dreck out there, and Clive Barker's books are pretty good overall.
@jcbchuck Cool man. I'm in financial hell right now but when I climb out of it I'll get back to you. I'll not forget. I'm a lunatic for this film. Trust me. Thanks for the info. Take care.
Pure horror gold. They should've made this into a series.
Why not? Can't be worse than all the other shit they make series out of these days
It still could easily become a series. Provided of course it is done right. There are those of us that appreciate a deeper dive into the gothic, the macabre and the occult. Showing new and even hidden parts of history are fascinating ideas. If we have learned nothing else from series like The X-Files, Millennium, Bates Motel and American Horror Story. It's this anything and everything in the world of any series can be made possible. Sometimes taking certain liberties with historical facts. Even going further with minor characters can be beneficial to the story.
likely a underrated gem of horror, courtesy of the imagination and originality of Baker, a perfect classic that eternally haunt the nightmares of many.
Underrated little film, I think. Good adaptation of the short story and a good Barker film.
I did not care for the film back in the day, but now I really love it. I think it is a very well made film overall and I really wish we could have gotten more on- screen stories with Bakula as Harry D'Amour.
The short story this is based on is fantastic.
" The Last Illusion"
been searching this my whole life since i was a kid
they hid it good but i found it today
It's on Netflix
Really? Load of bollocks I thought
it was on the 90s i perfectly remember the face of that diabolical priest i saw it in a old tv ... i used to live in a third world poor town from colombia the country were im still living .. it had to pass a couple of years untill i learn a little bit of english . .. i been looking for a lot of stuff from the states that i rarely watch on the tv back on those days.
@@rendy2205 I meant the film was bollocks, like a comedy but without the laughs
Wow, this movie appears to have a nice plot.I have given up completely on modern day cinema,I guess I'll just watch all these 90's movies.
Still relevant 8 years later
Fully agree with you.
This comment aged like fine wine.
Death to modern cinema
CA-PLAHHHHH
@@beerdragon4583there’s so many good movies, can’t believe you called Mad God bad 💀
One of my favorite films to this day!!
"Sumsing is watching,
Something is listening,
Sumsing is coming"
Well at least he got it right once..
I been trying to remember the name of this movie for a long time glad I finally found it
An excellent example of Clive's innovative brilliance.
This one and Hellraiser II are my favorites.
This movie was ridiculous, I hated it
An absolutely fantastic film. Horror and suspense twisted up into a Neo-noir style. Love the main character Barker created and the various stories he wrote about him.
I'm surprised Scott Bakula isn't more famous, he's a really good actor
Agreed. A very underrated actor
What are you talking about? He was the star of Enterprise! Jk
@@VladmirPoopN And Quantum Leap and Necessary Roughness.
@@Soxfandan idk if I've seen Necessary Roughness. Might have to check it out just because Sinbad is in it 😅
Edit: Rob Schneider, Jason Bateman, Kathy Ireland, etc... What a mix of people
I Saw this film for the first time with my brother when we had 12-10 years an 1st of January at 12:00 am on TV.. 😂
I love the 90s so I’ll give it a shot
I don't understand all the hate this movie gets. It is really, really something different, particularly for the time. It had almost a Cthulhu-like feel for most of it where Nix is a lurking, all-powerful force threatening to come back while his cultists work to restore him. And I found Nix to be a really interesting character. This incredibly-powerful wizard (for lack of a better word) appears like a middle-aged slob.
dacypher22 This does seem similar to the Call if Cathulu game on Xbox in some ways.
A real pear shaped loser…
Truth is, it may be creative, but it's a disjointed mess.
@@ShadovvV I can't completely deny that, honestly. I still do think it has some interesting charm, though and still don't think it deserves the hate it gets.
So a HP Lovecraft vibe?
I've been searching for this movie forever but couldn't remember the title! I watched this at a sleepover at a friends house when I was like 13 or 14 and even at that age it scared the fuck out of me! I hope it stands the test of time cuz I definitely plan on watching it again now that I found it!
so, have you rewatched it yet?
I found it on Amazon Prime Video for free
@@Luthorcorp82 Yeah, but that's not a very good cut, unfortunately. It leaves out some scenes that help to build the tension and tie the story together.
Dude me too I finally found it after 10 years! Only search for it briefly every 3 or 4 years comes to my mind. I though it was called "The Illusionist" 🤣 This movie was scary as fuck for me too as a teen. I need to buy this, Amityville 2 was scary too!
Same
Got it yesterday on the bluray, watched it last night after seeing it 20 something years ago,
here's my review:
fucking awesome!
I remember watching this when I was a kid. Scared the fuck outta me!
I just finished watching this last night after rediscovering the Hellraiser series. It was a pretty good movie even though the FX are dated now. I enjoyed watching the trailer with the narrator, like the old days.
"The grave is lonely, but living is worse." -Nicks (The puritan)
"In a world where magic is real". Ah, yeah...that's the good stuff.
It's real in this world, the flesh is a illusion.
@@cashshawn
The old school "in a world where..." just crack me up. Great times.
@@cashshawn I cast on thee the curse of farting whenever you're nervous, FARTAZAM!
Seen this movie when I was 6 freaked me out like crazy
Me too, and I was 9. Super scared at the time.
best clive baker movie...
Underated film watched on Netflix the other night with the missus and I've never heard her be as quiet .🤣🤣🤣
I have to watch the directors cit sometime I'm a huge clive Barker fan
This movie was so Epic when it first came out, haha. If Manson had supernatural powers...
yea it was good
“I was born to murder the world.” God I love that line!
Ugh! I quote this movie daily! So perfect
A true horror noir. Clive Barker is a God. #FleshIsATrap
This movie always scared me until I realized that the villain was George Costanza's boss, Mr. Kruger.
Ha! And, ohh, I thought ge looked familiar.
K Ooger! K Ooger! All right that’s it for me.
Or that he killed himself irl..
Damn, quite the resume he had too, RIP
He was Commandant Spangler in Malcolm In The Middle too
Not a big fan of Clive Barker but thought this film was his best . I did tape it on VHS back in the day (LOL).The actor who played Nix died a few years back and O Conner was in the first Mummy film . I thought the film was quite creepy and the effect was well done .
This movie original VCD 📀 came from malaysia. My uncle brought it I took it. I watched it one time but my dad disposed this VCD due to adults scenes. But good movie..
I didn't realize this fits in the Hell Raiser universe. Soo cool imo.
Pretty sure the detective meets pinhead in one of the books, would have loved to have seen a movie about that.
@sippy1sippy harry fights pinhead in the scarlet gospels i believe.
Now this is Scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
scary how?
Magic is the total defiance, of all natural laws and science. With Magic, the impossible becomes possible.
@pitviper71 The detective, Harry d'Amour, is from a Clive Barker short story.
Amen to that. it's my favorite of his.
Awesome flick.
this was one hell of a good movie. probly clive barkers best flim. diffrent from his outher horror stuff!
I thought this movie was kind of awesome. Sure it looks a little dated and some of the eeffects are lame, but the story, acting, and soundtrack of it were pretty intriguing.
That's the word! Intriguing. Love this movie
I saw the 2 hour version last night and loved it. The film deserved to do better at the box office (it only just made its budget back...)
Between this and Nightbreed, Barker got jaded working with studios and has never directed again. Too bad.
So, so 90's :D
this movie is sadly UNDERRATED!!!
2:00 🤣 a mandrill is getting in on the action
Flesh is a trap, and magic sets us free
love this movie so so so
much
NICE ANOTHER MOVIE FROM DA 90S I MIGHT LIKE. WOO!
Are you ready for my wisdom?
The music at the beginning sounded like the group Dead Can Dance.
Part that spooked me was when the followers who obviously led a double life get "awakened" & murder their own families & just go off to resurrect Nix. That creepy blind devotion that you can feel "certain" fanatics in todays world could be like.
Only to find out in the end that their cult god really didn't give two flips of a wooden nickle about them, and their sacrifice was for nothing.
That reptile house keeper- driving back to the desert with all the snakes in his car🐍🐍🐍
anyone got a full movie link? greatest underrated movie
Childhood!
Does this remind anyone of the movie The Cell? The actors look the same too
I've been bloody googling like crazy trying to find the name of this movie. Demon buried in metal clamps or scenes from the movie I could vaguely remember.
I just happened to look at the Facebook 'nightbreed' page ; and there it was...
Why did Harry need to be raised to push him in? Lol. He didn’t hover above hole to do. So made no sense that had to be raised. Just walk over and push him in.
" I was born to murder the world." Cool. Me too😁
Yes this was one of the best he made, the best in my opinion, I wish he would have kept bringing Nix back like he does with Pin Head.
Where's Al?
@BYOSProductions there are so many things wrong with what you just said i dont know where to start..
front line assembly - flavour of the weak album. based on this movie:) really sick :)
Hal douglas narrated this trailer, right?
I was born to murder the world... Epic.
A good film that's terrifying.
best clive bakers movie..
This film would have been EVEN MORE awesome if it had started with the creepy 1982 Turning UA logo for United Artists at the start of the movie instead of the 1995 Marble logo.
Who's the narrator of the trailer?
brilliant horror movie....
What I took from the character of Nix was...
I believe Nix was chosen by a very powerful, dark entity, and was given powers of a god. Once he saw the world through the eyes of a god, he saw humanity as shit and flesh. Once Nix was defeated, appropriately he wasn't truly dead, more like imprisoned to the grave. He learned the wisdom of the grave, and decided he was going to murder the world in the worst way possible.
Woah... talk about a great villain💀
I thought Lord Of Illusions was Clive Barker's best film.
Jenifer desertion said BE QUIET OR HE WILL HEAR YOU PRICELESS
Don Lafontaine, at the height of his powers
i like best clive barker,s movie...
I like this movie. Dennis winship
Best acting of benny from the mummy
It's on Amazon Prime Video for free, just found it
Also on Pluto Tv for free
I have an original 35MM Red Band trailer for Lord of Illusions if anyone is interested.
jcbchuck I am interested..
This is another one of those movies that severely fucked me up as a kid lol.
Lol Jedi mind tricks brought me here
best horror movie....
and from Quantum Leap
"KAY-OOGER!"
Red Band? Where???
You know where
oh boy
if clive barker and sam raimi direct and produce SPAWN the movie back in
90s with supported by production house company columbia pictures,surely
the quality will be great not like WB version which in 1997 -_-
OMG IT'S TRIP WESTON FROM DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES :p
call me shallow but this looks cursed by mid 90s cheese. it needs a remake. i'll still watch it sometime or read the book because it seems interesting.
@jcbchuck Oh god yes. How much you asking for? Not sure when I can pay as I'm in a situation right now but once I'm good hell yes I would be most interested in that trailer. Let me know.
@sparktank Yes I remember that trailer too, with just Dead Can Dance's "De Profundis" as the music.
I remember seeing this movie when it came out, it wasn't that bad for a $5 ticket, even though the acting sucked, and the ending was disappointing (the kind where you suspect that's where the budget ran out). There's alot worse dreck out there, and Clive Barker's books are pretty good overall.
What was so disappointing about the ending? I thought it was the best part.
I am Lord of Illusions
No matter what side Benny chooses he is always on the wrong side
Great movie, but good lord where the trailers corny af back then
It's Mr kruger
@VFVhho Haven't been on in an while. Still have the trailer for $70 if you are interested. Message me and we can work out details.
@jcbchuck Cool man. I'm in financial hell right now but when I climb out of it I'll get back to you. I'll not forget. I'm a lunatic for this film. Trust me. Thanks for the info. Take care.
Uh how about Nzo.
Flesh is a trap.
@aaronwhitebooga dude i dont even remember what i said lol
The trailer is better than the movie!
@technoisgod SAME HERE
I want Harry D'Amour vs Pinhead (Hellraiser) movie before Scott Bakula too old for the role.
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